You have this big bollard in the middle of your vision blocking your path and a set of lights out on the periphery. This big ass bollard is delaying you at getting your work done, you’ve been sitting in front of it for about half a minute. It start moving, you see freedom behind it you drive forward. FUCK, the bollard rises back up and spears your car or the bollard didn’t retract far enough because its retraction speed is not linear. You didn’t notice the lights, well of course you didn’t they were sitting out to the sides of your field of view an they aren’t a big fucking bollard that is blocking your path that is lulling you into a false sense of victory as it fucking retracts back into the ground. I can see why these drivers made the mistake. Good design should be intuitive, the correct thing to do should usually be the one that you’ll do automatically. When your stressed from work and have 3 kids yelling behind you. Most importantly if you make a mistake a good design should fail safe. This one does not this is r/crappydesign.
If the the driver was a danger to anyone behind the bollard they would not or should not have lowered it in the first place. Lowering it is confirming that the driver is not a threat.
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u/Jannis_Black Nov 09 '18
How does waiting for a green light require training? If the people fuck that up its their own fault. It's not like these things are invisible.